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What's the solution then for a full disaster recovery without all this rigaramo with office xp? Do you agree it's disk imaging? Or am I missing something? If so, what disk imaging software does dantz recommend? I'm sorry to say that I'm ready to jump ship at this point.
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Should I make a disaster recovery set everytime I do a full backup? Or, if I do a full backup, can I use a disaster recovery set I created earlier to do a full restore? I seem to recall that a disaster recovery set is somehow directly tied to a specific full backup.
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On point #1, I'm not quite sure what you mean by allowing upgraders to "keep" disaster recovery. Is there no disaster recovery in 6.0? Or would I have to pay extra to have disaster recovery if I were a new customer for 6.0 and not an upgrader? I'm confused.
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Thanks. Does anyone reading this forum know of backup software that addresses point #2 in this thread (i.e. backup software that will do a disaster recovery without forcing you to full reinstall on Office XP)? I'm not sure if this problem is generic to all backup software because of XP, but frankly a backup that cannot do a full restore all by itself is, in my judgement, not really doing a backup and is putting excess burden on the person (me) doing the restore. Think about it. Not only do you have to re-install office xp , but you then have to download and re-install all the office service packs and other updates. This is *very* time consuming. Obviously, disk imaging would handle it, but that seems extreme. It's mind boggling if it's the year 2002 and no genuine backup software exists.
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I have 5.6.132 version of retrospect express. Hard to tell if there has been a bug fix patch release since my version. Can't find a version history on the website.
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A way to safely test a DRecovery in advance
dimprov replied to jd91651's topic in Product Suggestions-Windows
I agree. What good is a backup unless you can verify it's quality? I worry about this a lot, as will anyone who has ever tried a disaster recovery only to find out there was a problem with the backup in question. With XP it's almost impossible to verify, because you can't do a test restore to a dummy machine. The closest I've come to a workaround to this problem is doing a test restore to a different partition on the same machine, but that tactic isn't really supported the retrospect product (see my posts in the express section) and you have to jump through a lot of undocumented hoops to make it work. -
What's the future upgrade policy for people who buy 6.0? If I'm paying $49 to upgrade from 5.6 to 6.0, does that mean I pay more to upgrade to 6.1 when that comes out? i.e. do I get nicked all along the way, or am I covered until 7.0?
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What does it mean to duplicate the registry, and why might I want to?
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Has this problem been fixed in the 6.0 release?
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I'm using 5.6 for backing up my desktop. 1. What are the pros/cons of upgrading to 6.0? 2. One problem I had with 5.6 under XP is that in doing a complete disaster recovery restore, I had to manually reinstall all of microsoft office XP pro. Has this been fixed? 3. Any other big reasons to upgrade, or is 6.0 mostly a bug-fix release (with, of course, it's own set of new bugs)? 4. Also, the $49 upgrade fee: do I get a fresh 6.0 disk for that, or is that a layered thing where I have to keep my 5.6 disk? 5. Finally, I bought 5.6 this year. Isn't there a free upgrade to 6.0 for people like me who recently purchased 5.6? I wish I could just read the dantz website to answer most of these questions, but all I could find was rather vague marketing material. So, I guess that's more work for the folks in dantz support as more people struggle with this. Hopefully, a complete answer here can be leveraged by other readers.
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Why install the beta? Isn't the final release available? They seem to be selling it. Usually they don't sell beta's. I'm curious, because I was just now thinking about upgrading versus buying. The price difference isn't very much. On the other hand, I only recently bought 5.6, so another $49 seems unkind.
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I don't know how to find the answer to that.
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Try Nero for burning an iso to see if it helps. It works for me.
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Why is that? I had to office pro xp repair utility. Why is getting a decent full restore using disaster recovery from scratch so difficult?